Greg Ip has a nice piece reporting on the latest academic research. If first quarter GDP growth comes in around 2.2 percent, which is now the consensus forecast, chalk up another weak quarter for productivity growth.
--Dean Baker
The Wall Street Journal is Out Front on the Productivity Slowdown
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